Unified Cebu agrees to implement MECQ

Dyrecka Letigio 07/30/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — All local government units (LGUs) in Cebu will be implementing the Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) that the Interagency Task Force (IATF) has recommended here. The mayors of all LGUs met with Cebu…

Mactan-Cebu International Airport expands with 2nd taxiway

Morexette Marie Erram 05/05/2021

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu—Expansions at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) continue despite the crisis spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic. Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, inaugurated MCIA’s second taxiway. Watch it here: He was accompanied…

Sec. Dino fully recovers from COVID-19

Futch Anthony Inso 02/27/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Secretary Michael Dino of the Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas (OPAV)  has been discharged from a private hospital in Cebu City after fully recovering from the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)…

PNP Chief Sinas starts Cebu visit early with courtesy call on Secretary Dino

Morexette Marie B. Erram 11/20/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The highest-ranking official of the Philippine National Police (PNP) has arrived in Cebu earlier than his expected arrival on Saturday, November 21. Police General Debold Sinas, PNP chief, who was supposedly to arrive…

Cebu hospitals support 24-hour curfew for seniors, minors

Irene R. Sino Cruz 03/23/2020

  CEBU CITY, Philippines—Cebu hospitals and doctors are supporting the imposition of a 24-hour curfew for senior citizens and minors, which aims to impede transmission of the deadly Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19). On Saturday, March 21, 2020,…

Dino appoints Cobonpue to head Visayas quincentennial committee

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 10/12/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — World-renowned furniture designer, Kenneth Cobonpue, has been appointed as head of the Visayas Quincentennial Committee. Cobonpue was appointed by Secretary Michael Dino, Presidential Assistant for the Visayas.  Cobonpue’s recent assignment was announced in…

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